Madison (James) Knew that War Tended to Enhance Executive Power and Erode Liberties

The Cato Institute’s Chris Preble and Mieke Eoyang, director of the National Security Program at Third Way, call for a clean repeal of the much-abused Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF). “Conservatives who revere the Constitution should be most reluctant to hand over unending powers to the president.” As Chris and Mieke correctly advise, “The most successful counterterrorism operations involve timely intelligence collection and analysis, and cooperation with local officials, not open-ended military operations involving large deployments of U.S. troops.”